Synthesis and antiviral evaluation of alkoxyalkyl esters of acyclic purine and pyrimidine nucleoside phosphonates against HIV-1 in vitro

Add time:07/20/2019    Source:sciencedirect.com

Alkoxyalkyl esters of cidofovir, an acyclic nucleoside phosphonate, have been shown to have antiviral activities several orders of magnitude greater than unmodified cidofovir against cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex virus, vaccinia, cowpox, ectromelia and adenoviruses in vitro. Hexadecyloxypropyl-cidofovir is orally bioavailable and active in lethal animal models of vaccinia, cowpox, ectromelia and cytomegalovirus. To see if this strategy is also applicable to other acyclic nucleoside phosphonates, we have converted several phosophonomethoxyethyl purines and pyrimidines to their hexadecyloxypropyl, octadecyloxyethyl and oleyloxyethyl esters and compared their activity against HIV-1 with the activity of the respective unmodified acyclic nucleoside phosphonates. The hexadecyloxypropyl esters of phosphonomethoxyethyl-adenine, phosphonomethoxyethyl-2,6-diaminopurine and phosphonomethoxyethyl-N6-cyclopropyl-diaminopurine were 3–5 orders of magnitude more active against HIV-1 in vitro than the parent nucleotides. The EC50 values for these compounds were in the 10–20 pM range with selective indexes of 1250 to >4000. The acyclic pyrimidine phosphonates were generally inactive against HIV-1 in vitro. Phosphonomethoxyethyl-cytosine and phosphonomethoxyethyl-5-fluorocytosine were inactive against HIV-1. Surprisingly, hexadecyloxypropyl-phosphonomethoxyethyl-5-fluorocytosine was active against HIV-1 with a submicromolar EC50 and a selective index of 174. Esterification of acyclic nucleoside phosphonates with alkoxyalkyl moieties may represent a general approach for increasing antiviral activity and selectivity of this class of antivirals.

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